A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people that I had bee a studio musician with.
Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
As a young musician, you really want to play.
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
Part of me believes that the completed record is the final measure of a pop musician's accomplishment, just as the completed film is the final measure of a film artist's accomplishments.
Andy Rourke and I had been playing together from 14 or 15, and we had a very great musical chemistry. Andy's just a very respected and unusual musician.
As I grow older, I just want to be a better musician, to play more.
Music is my thing. In fact, that's what I wanted to do. I thought of myself as a musician. I had never thought about acting.
My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.
Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.
I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.
I have a lot of musician friends. I worked in radio as a music director, and I know everybody hears about the George Straits and the Garth Brooks and the Kenny Chesneys and all that, but for every major star, there are thousands who didn't quite make it.
I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.
'Simeon's Gift' is really - it's about a musician who - in the Middle Ages, who goes out to find his muse.
I became a man in New York. New York made me the musician that I am and the person that I am, so it's impossible for me to say I regret having lived there.
I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.
Since the music industry cracked and fell apart, gasping for the cash flow it had come to expect, much re-thinking has been the order of the day. It is a fine time to be a musician. Like walking through Sodom and Gomorrah while it is still smoking, on your way to the next gig.
I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.
To be fair to David Brent, he wants to be famous for doing something, for being a musician, but he's just not good enough.
I'm not a trained musician or singer, but I can turn out a song.
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
My playground as a musician is growing.
If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.
I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
That said, everything's important, and every musician who plays on the record is an integral part of it.
As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.
Making music, if you're a real musician, you carry on regardless in this world.
There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.
I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.
I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.
Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one!
I started playing the piano when I was 6 years old 'cause my folks tried to get me away from the gramophone. And I just - I lived for music since I could think. And they got me piano lessons. So by the time I was 13, I was quite an accomplished piano player and musician.
